Management of Looses Supported from Master Data Cleaning Process, for OSHEE Distribution Sector

Abstract

Since CEZ time, the OSHEE Company has been involved in some regulatory discussions with ERE that had prevented the company from implementing a proper and comprehensive loss reduction plan in years. Nevertheless the OSHEE Company has start end of 2014 several initiatives for the loss reduction that, in staff’s words, may lack of the proper comprehensiveness and/or high-level view to be absolutely successful. International experience shows that Albanian’s case seems similar to the Latin American cases in 90’s and 2000’s. High loss levels with a population with a low interest in paying the electricity and a soft social and punitive framework that somehow allows irregular consumption of the energy. Even in these cases, being the energy losses a sector and country's problem, solutions have been found and implemented with the necessary strong and consistent efforts and support of all involved stakeholders within a comprehensive loss reduction framework. The initiative to create a pilot project for: – Checking OSHEE ability to clean the customer database with in house resources. – Checking OSHEE’s ability to conduct network mapping task with in house resources. – Checking OSHEE’s ability to perform improvement of network and measurement installations condition without major investments. – Testing new operational approaches. – Understanding major obstacles for loss reduction efforts.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n2p129